... accept surveillance, embrace it, and set up the
mechanism for subterfuge. Only that route can allow creative ways of
spooking the system to emerge.
cf Russell, Eric Frank, "... And Then There Were None", 1951
In practice, after a certain scale on this planet one is far more
likely to wind up with Somalia or a Manor Farm than with a Gand, but
maybe that was part of Russell's point: Gand was not only originally
settled with a small, fairly homogenous, population, but also had
superficial as well as deeper means of discouraging Antigands:
ghosting* (nb. 3 decades before "tit for tat") only came into play
after the hippy-dippy appearances failed to scare off the squares.
-Dave
* what goes "clip clop clip clop ... silence ... clip clop clip
clop"? An Amish drive-by shunning.
